<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Hi Kurt, </div><div>Thanks for taking the time. Is 6.2 fully backwards compatible with 6.1?</div><div>Joe<br><br>---<div>Joseph Walrath, MD</div><div>Sent from my iPad</div></div><div><br>On Jun 6, 2010, at 9:48 AM, pro Fit Support <<a href="mailto:profit@quansoft.com">profit@quansoft.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Joseph<div><br></div><div>The beta-download-page does presently provide some of the highlights of 6.2. The best summary of the major new features can presently be found in the B2-package, in</div><div><br></div><div>Documentation/Release Notes/What's new in 6.2.rtf. </div><div><br></div><div>For convenience, I append its contents to the end of this mail.</div><div><div><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">Best regards</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Kurt Sutter</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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<br><div><div>On 6. Jun 2010, at 15:39, Joseph Walrath wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Thanks much! I presume the website will describe the advantages of upgrade?<br><br>---<br>Joseph Walrath, MD<br>Sent from my iPad<br><br>On Jun 6, 2010, at 9:37 AM, pro Fit Support <<a href="mailto:profit@quansoft.com"><a href="mailto:profit@quansoft.com">profit@quansoft.com</a></a>> wrote:<br><br></div></blockquote><br></div><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><b>What's new in pro Fit 6.2?</b></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 15.0px Helvetica"><b>Programming/scripting</b></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Built-in Python support. Python within pro Fit is a full equivalent of pro Fit's own, built-in Pascal scripting language and can be used for defining pro Fit programs and functions. Python is a mature programming language with a rich feature set well-suited for scientific calculus, and it allows you to tap a vast choice of scientific libraries, such as numpy and scipy. For more information, search pro Fit's on-line help for Python, and have a look at "Example Files/Python", and in particular the "Python Read Me" file therein. </p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>SetCell now works for date and time columns by automatically converting the string to a date or time</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>New functions: </p>
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<li style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">GetRandomNumber provides a more flexible tool for generating random numbers having a given distribution. </li>
<li style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">StudentsTTable and StudentsDistribution for calculating values of Student's t-Table and Student's distribution.</li>
<li style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">ChooseFile allows to bring up a file selection dialog</li>
<li style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">There are new commands to prepare a fit object and execute a fit based on such an object, supporting simple as well as multi-dimensional fitting: FitCreate, FitSetArguments, FitSetExperiment, FitExecute, FitDispose.</li>
</ul><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Modified functions: </p>
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<li style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">SetLineColor and SetFillColor now allow to specify the transparency (alpha component). </li>
<li style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">SetCurrentWindow, GetWindowID, GetWindowType and NextWindow now accept the window name or a window object as parameter, in addition to the window ID. </li>
<li style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">GetWindowObject allows to specify windows by window ID in addition to name and index. SelectDirectory and GetFileDirectory are obsolete. Use ChooseDirectory and GetDocumentDirectory instead. </li>
<li style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">Various built-in functions that had arguments named 'from' and 'to' have the names of these arguments changed (in most cases to 'first', 'last') in order to avoid incompatibilities with Python. For pascal scripts, the old names are still supported for backwards compatibility.</li>
</ul><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pascal: New and modified functions: Sgn() for real and complex values, 'Sscanf' for interpreting formatted input strings. RegexFind() and RegexReplace() allow to search and process strings using regular expressions.</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pascal: Multi-dimensional arrays</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pascal: New type UnicodeString for Pascal scripts. It can be used more or less in the same manner as a normal string, but it has unlimited length and supports unicode characters</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Pascal: Some of the functions that can be called by Pascal-Macros now have named parameters: OpenDataSet, OpenCurve, AddDataPoint, SetLineStyle, SetFillPattern, DrawText (the old-versions of these calls without named parameters are still supported, though, for backwards compatibility).</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 15.0px Helvetica"><b>Working with functions, fitting</b></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A "Simple Curve Fit" command in the Calc menu provides quick access to pro Fit's fitting algorithms without going through a dialog box first.</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fitting with multiple experiments supports parameters which are local to each experiment. In other words, if you have several experiments, some of your function's input values can be different for each experiment, while some others are common to all experiments</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Improved the Levenberg-Marquardt fitting algorithm to better handle some situation where its classic implementation failed to converge to the correct minimum</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 15.0px Helvetica"><b>Data processing, data windows</b></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>A new command for sorting data allows to sort using multiple columns at once</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Fourier transforms can now be calculated on real-valued as well as complex-valued time-domain data.</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>New commands for calculating convolution and correlation</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Double-clicking the column width separators will adjust the column width automatically</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Improved support for importing text files into data window: pro Fit can now properly handle data fields enclosed in double-quotes. This is particularly useful for importing csv-files from Excel. And pro Fit can now (optionally) parse dates.</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>When pasting into a data window, any numeric column that gets non-numeric data pasted into it is automatically converted to a text column.</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Quartiles are supported in statistics</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 36px; text-indent: -36px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; ">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Improved drag & drop or copy & paste from hid party applications like Numbers into pro Fit data windows</div><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 15.0px Helvetica"><b>Plotting</b></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Errors of plotted data can now be drawn as filled or empty boxes, filled or empty ellipses, or as probability clouds in addition to the conventional cross bars</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Added a command Apply Style to the Plot menu which allows to apply a graph style to one or more graphs in a drawing window, thereby simplifying the creation of a series of graphs with common style settings</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 15.0px Helvetica"><b>General, miscellaneous:</b></p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Revamped Preview, Debug, Parameter and Preferences windows, the latter being non-modal now</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica">•<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Improved performance thanks to improved multithreading support on multicore systems, e.g. when processing a large dataset using the Plot z(x,y) and the Gridding commands using Modified Shepard interpolation</p><p style="margin: 8.0px 0.0px 0.0px 9.0px; text-indent: -9.0px; font: 14.0px Helvetica; min-height: 17.0px"><br></p></div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>proFit-list mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:proFit-list@quantum-soft.com">proFit-list@quantum-soft.com</a></span><br><span><a href="http://quantum-soft.com/mailman/listinfo/profit-list_quantum-soft.com">http://quantum-soft.com/mailman/listinfo/profit-list_quantum-soft.com</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>